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EDC Environmental Conservation course video (East Durham College)

For more information about Environmental Conservation courses please head to the East Durham website: http://www.eastdurham.ac.uk/1419/view... A transcript of the video follows: TOM: My name's Tom Dent and I'm studying Environmental Conservation work-based diploma at East Durham College, Houghall Campus. PAUL: My name's Paul Andrew Forrest and I'm studting a Level 3 Environmental Conservation Diploma here at East Durham College, Houghall Campus. JONATHAN: My name's Jonathan Pounder and I'm the Environmental Conservation lecturer here at East Durham College, Houghall Campus. TOM: On this course we have undertaken a variety of tasks covering different aspects of the environment and conservation. So we've done tree felling, hedge laying, pond clearance, surveys we've done on badgers and also footpaths and people. We monitor populations in small areas so on this site we've got badgers we also set traps for small mammals; voles, mice, etc. to give us an idea of how many of what species there are, if they're in good health and good numbers. JONATHAN: The students on the Environmental Conservation courses are very much working within the community so we work here, down at Houghall farm, we work around the Houghall campus, but we also spend a lot of time going out to the community and working with different partner organisations to carry out real life practical projects so all of our work has some positive benefit to the local communities and the wildlife that lives there. TOM: My favourite part of this course has probably been the practical activity. Every week we are out somewhere doing something different, learning something different and everyone gets the chance to partake with the work and everyone gets involved, everyone gets to learn about things and gets the practical skills. JONATHAN: THe facilities are excellent. We've got an outstanding library, we've got a range of tools which are necessary to complete the various operations that we carry out. Within the campus we've got the facilities to provide a lot of different jobs. The pond clearance, the hedge-laying, the tree-felling but we also have the capacity to go out within the wider area and do the work across the North East and that is one of the greatest strengths of the course. PAUL: I think its important that we preserve our old ways of doing things and also the heritage around where we live and I think we need more of this type of work to be going on to improve the upkeep of our environment. JONATHAN: A lot of the contacts that I've established over the 12 years that I've been in the local area working I do use to suit individual students and give them a leap-frog so they don't have to go through the sort of making of the contacts and meeting people straight away. I can join the dots for them and that gives them that headstart and also that advantage when it comes to applying for jobs. TOM: At the end of this year when the course has finished I'm planning on carrying on and doing my Level 3 next year but after that I would like to work with National Parks and basically be a local warden for a nature reserve.